Stellar atmospheres (part II)

17 Março 2020, 13:00 • Israel Matute

The lecture was dedicated to defining stellar opacity and its sources

• Opacity

• Absorption: the absorption coefficient.

• Optical Depth and its extremes: optically think and optically thin.

• Processes that contribute to total opacity:

• Bound-bound;

• Bound-free; 

• Free-free;

• Electron Scattering;

• The H- ion.